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Dowling College Dr Christian Perring

PHL 042A Ethics Spring 2003

Paper II.

3 pages/~900 words. Due by midnight on Tuesday, March 25. Even if you have not completed your paper by class, do NOT miss class. If you find you are having difficulties writing your paper, contact me to let me know and I will help you.

Papers must be submitted in an electronic form. I prefer you to do so using Turnitin.com (the class ID is 60494, and the password is "ethics"), but you can instead email me a copy of your paper in Word or RTF as an attachment, or give me a copy of your paper on disk. You can if you want also give me a hard copy.

Any form of plagiarism or academic dishonesty is unacceptable and may result in you failing the course and being reported to the Dean of Students. Plagiarism is using sources in the writing of your paper without acknowledging your sources. It is often a good idea to use other sources, but if you do so, you must say where you found information, either in parentheses or in a footnote. If you quote directly or copy text from another source, you must put the quotation in quotation marks and say exactly where it comes from, giving page numbers or the exact URL. I don’t require any particular reference format, but APA format is a good one to use. (For more information on reference formats, the Dowling College Library website has a page on the Citation and Evaluation of Sources.)

Answer ONE of these questions:

1. Discuss whether the moral approach in The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount from the New Testament is more compatible with the ethics of Kant or Mill.
2. Robert Solomon argues that a virtuous business person will be successful. Using Aristotle's approach to understanding a good life, discuss in detail what it would be for a business person to be virtuous and using an example of a particular kind of business, consider whether it is plausible that being virtuous would put one in a good position to be successful.